2024
Severe, Refractory Primary Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Requiring 90 Erythrocyte Transfusions.
Namineni N, Waldron C, Tormey C, Goshua G. Severe, Refractory Primary Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Requiring 90 Erythrocyte Transfusions. Annals Of Internal Medicine Clinical Cases 2024, 3 PMID: 38725710, PMCID: PMC11081177, DOI: 10.7326/aimcc.2023.1141.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWarm autoimmune hemolytic anemiaAutoimmune hemolytic anemiaHemolytic anemiaSevere warm autoimmune hemolytic anemiaMonths of follow-upHealthy 60-year-old manTherapeutic plasma exchangeHospital day 1Erythrocyte transfusionTransfusion-dependentRefractory diseasePlasma exchangeImmune globulinHospital stayFollow-upDay 1AnemiaHospitalRituximabReticulocytopeniaRemissionSplenectomyTransfusionPatientsStay
2022
Procuring rare (珍しい)* Japanese red blood cell units for a bleeding patient with anti-K11 requiring a life-saving procedure
Rodriguez J, Tormey C. Procuring rare (珍しい)* Japanese red blood cell units for a bleeding patient with anti-K11 requiring a life-saving procedure. Immunohematology 2022, 38: 96-99. PMID: 36190197, DOI: 10.21307/immunohematology-2022-049.Peer-Reviewed Case Reports and Technical NotesConceptsAmerican Rare Donor ProgramRed blood cell unitsAntigen-positive unitsLife-saving procedurePotential clinical significanceMultiple comorbiditiesKnee amputationExtremity amputationCritical anemiaCase reportAdverse reactionsClinical significanceCell unitsPatient plasmaTransfusion communityGroup OClinical necessityDonor ProgramRBC unitsPatientsAmputationCompatible unitsAnemiaChallenging caseRare event
2016
Clinically significant anti‐KEL RBC alloantibodies are transferred by breast milk in a murine model
Santhanakrishnan M, Tormey CA, Natarajan P, Liu J, Hendrickson JE. Clinically significant anti‐KEL RBC alloantibodies are transferred by breast milk in a murine model. Vox Sanguinis 2016, 111: 79-87. PMID: 26950259, PMCID: PMC4938760, DOI: 10.1111/vox.12387.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBreast milkRBC alloantibodiesIgA antibodiesMurine modelHuman KEL glycoproteinSeries of pregnanciesBreast milk transferHuman breast milkWild-type pupsKEL RBCsNursing infantsClinical significanceAlloantibodiesNursing pupsMurine dataTransfusion experimentsMilk transferInfantsPupsTransfusionHuman dataSequelaePregnancyAnemiaPremature clearance